Hitler was raised Catholic, regularly invoked Jesus in his speeches and spoke often of his and the German peoples' "manifest destiny", which isn't very atheist at all. He also thought that he was fighting for God's work by killing Jews, and although he also persecuted the Catholic Church and some Prostestant churches later on, he never ceaed being a theist, in fact, he was actually and always Catholic and was never excommunicated from the Catholic Church and the book "Mein Kampf" was not placed on the Church's index of forbidden books. And yes, the Catholic Church supported Nazis and the killing of the Jews.

And regarding atheism, Hitler opposed it in a 1933 speech in Berlin: "We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”

And due to Hitler's involvement with the Church, he began enacting doctrines of the Church as law. He outlawed all abortion (citation needed?), raged a death war on all homosexuals, and demanded corporal punishment in schools and home, and many times Hitler addressed the church and promised that Germany would implement its teaching: “The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference with their doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with the views and the exigencies of the State of today.” –Adolf Hitler, on 26 June 1934, to Catholic bishops to assure them that he would take action against the new pagan propaganda “Providence has caused me to be Catholic, and I know therefore how to handle this Church.” -Adolf Hitler, reportedly to have said in Berlin in 1936 on the enmity of the Catholic Church to National Socialism

Hitler was actually religious, and yes, the Catholic church is racist, the more you know.

I think the real point which should be taken from this stamp is that an individual does not personify a faith or lack-there-of. Judge the validity of a belief based on the belief, not on the behavior of its believers.

The person who made this stamp is being somewhat hypocritical. I will admit that.

I used to be a Christian. Grew up in a Young Earth Creationist/Southern Baptist household. But then I started being objective and I couldn't do it anymore, so I became an Atheist. Best decision I've ever made.

I kinda wish that more people would be objective about their beliefs, rather than just accepting the beliefs instilled on them as children. Even if their objectivity leads them into other religions or obscure philosophies. Just the idea of everyone having all of the choices in front of them and having the ability to choose objectively without the beliefs of their parents or their society making the decision for them. That would be nice.

Hitler was a Catholic Austrian. If I remember correctly, he either had a grandparent or a great grandparent whose religion could not be accounted for, so he would not have passed his own test of "racial purity".

I copy and pasted this article from Wikipedia (don't believe me look it up Adolf Hitler on their site and go to his religious views), it disagrees with you.

Hitler was born to a practising Catholic mother and an anticlerical father, but after leaving home Hitler never again attended Mass or received the sacraments.[358][359][360]Speer states that Hitler made harsh pronouncements against the church to his political associates and though he never officially left it, he had no attachment to it.[361] He adds that Hitler felt that in the absence of the church the faithful would turn to mysticism, which he considered a step backwards.[361] According to Speer, Hitler believed that either Japanese religious beliefs or Islam would have been a more suitable religion for the Germans than Christianity, with its "meekness and flabbiness".[362] Historian John S. Conway states that Hitler was fundamentally opposed to the Christian churches.[363] According to Bullock, Hitler did not believe in God, was anticlerical, and held Christian ethics in contempt because they contravened his preferred view of "survival of the fittest".[364] He favoured aspects of Protestantism that suited his own views, and adopted some elements of the Catholic Church's hierarchical organisation, liturgy, and phraseology in his politics.[365]

Hitler viewed the church as an important politically conservative influence on society,[366] and he adopted a strategic relationship with it that "suited his immediate political purposes".[363] In public, Hitler often praised Christian heritage and German Christian culture, though professing a belief in an "Aryan Jesus", one who fought against the Jews.[367] Any pro-Christian public rhetoric was at variance with his personal beliefs, which described Christianity as "absurdity"[368] and nonsense founded on lies.[369]

According to a U.S. Office of Strategic Services report, "The Nazi Master Plan", Hitler planned to destroy the influence of Christian churches within the Reich.[370][371] His eventual goal was the total elimination of Christianity.[372] This goal informed Hitler's movement very early on, but he saw it as inexpedient to express this extreme position publicly.[373] According to Bullock, Hitler wanted to wait until after the war before executing this plan.[374]

Speer wrote that Hitler had a negative view of Himmler's and Alfred Rosenberg's mystical notions and Himmler's attempt to mythologise the SS. Hitler was more pragmatic, and his ambitions centred on more practical concerns.[375][376]

Hitler may or may not have been a Christian. But one thing is certain for sure: He said all of what you cited in your description just to sway the German masses, who were predominantly Christians, to his side, to get their political support. Like how the Japanese politicians manipulated their Shinto religion to boost up their ultra-nationalistic cause. In other words, he was just like any other malicious, crafty politicians that have been around lying to us for their consolidation of power throughout history.

And what the heck are you talking about? The Catholic Church as a whole was NEVER allied with the Nazis! I am no Catholic, but even I know this is an utter bullshit lie. When Italy was under control of Mussolini's fascists, Hitler was gearing up to smash Europe into a billion pieces and one of the worst horrors ever perpetrated was just around the corner. Pius XII took one look at the unfolding insanity and said "not on my watch" like a true badass he was. Although he started cautiously, by early 1940, he was mediating negotiations between British Intelligence and some pissed-off German high brass hoping to assassinate Hitler. He passed on sensitive coded information for the allies and, in 1942, became one of the few people in Europe to speak out against Hitler, using a radio address to explictly condemn the Nazi's racial cleansing program: "[The Nazis]...are in reality only miserable plagarists who dress old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult." Amidst all of the chaos he even awesomely, helped shelter and ship HUNDREDS of Jews out of German reach! Sadly, he also failed to speak out against the slaughter of Catholics in Poland and may have known about the Nazi extermination program long before he did anything about it. Nevertheless, you can never deny that he was the only continental European leader to openly tell Hitler to go fuck himself through his action.

On a completely random note, maybe it's just me, but... why the hell does everyone talk about Hitler and the Nazis when it comes to the topic of WWII?!! What about those fucking Japanese imperialists?! Did World War II only occur in fucking Europe?! Why don't I hear any stamp about the Japanese war crimes that should be known to everyone? And say whatever you want, but I can confidently say that the Japanese imperialists were much, MUCH worse than the Nazis in any way and for good reasons! This site has indeed been infested by the hordes of white/American weeaboos with a shallow, narrow mind and perspective of things.

Not true. Hitler's FAMILY was Catholic, just as most people from Austria. Hitler tried many religions in his life, never found "the right one" (umm... that pun wasn't intended...), exept that he was much into Hinduism, which influenced him a lot (the swastika - even though he pretended it was arune! -, and he was probably a Vegetarian)... He was barley faithful, even though wannabe spiritual. Christianity is Germany's main religion (apart from Judaism, of course) so Hitler tried to get Christians on his side. Plus, many noble and royal persons were on his side and they were ususally Christians. So yes, he was behind a huge "Christian" Nazi thing. Of course. But that as a tactic. Being a "Christian" was very important for getting followers in his time.

Apart from that, you can say lots of bad things about the Roman Catholic church. But it is definitely NOT racist. In fact, most members are dark skinned *cough* And, of course, Jesus was actually jewish...

So,and even if he WAS a Christian. That would not make Christians Nazis. That wouldn't say ANYTHING against Christians or Christianity. So there is absolutely no sense in your stamp. It's nothing but an anti-religious trolling stamp. Apart from that, being a member of teh church won't make someone a Christian. he didn't have Christian qualities. He was a murderer, he was full of hate. He was definitely not a Christian in his heart.

But of course. Hitler wuz NOT atheeest... Of course not...

So, if you want to make a proper anti-religious stamp (if it's soooo imprtant for you....) come up with actual facts. And with LOGIC.

And his hate against homosexuals (I refuse to say "homophobia") did NOT come from his religion. It was just that he wanted people in a - for him - "perfect" way. Ad that was everything he wasn't. He killed dark people, disabled people, Jewish people, Polish people (even though Polish people are often blonde!), etc. because he was INSANE. And, well, because he was dark, probably Jewish (unknown...), short, sometimes fat/skinny/never fit, kind of disabled, had only one ball and because he was not really straight... He jsut wanted to kill all people that were a tiny bit like him. But I am not going to analyze Hitler. Just... it had NOTHING to do with religion.

After Adolf was released from the defeated German Army following World War II, he joined the Satanic Secret Society, the Thule Society, directed at that time by Dietrich Eckart. Before Eckart ever met Adolf, he received a vision from his guiding spirit, telling him that he was going to meet the young man who was destined to become history's Antichrist.

Eckart was told to spare no effort in training Hitler in the deepest areas of the occult, preparing him for his historic role.

Hitler captured the minds and imaginations of a huge majority of Germans because he was demonically possessed. His power over the people was unparalleled, and will remain unparalleled until the real Antichrist arises.

His views on Christianity were simply this:i

Christianity is a religion that defends the weak and the low

It is purely Jewish and oriental in origin

It forces people to bend their backs to the sound of church bells and crawl to the cross of a foreign god

It began 2000 years ago among sick, exhausted, and despairing men who had lost their belief in life

The Christian tenets of forgiveness of sin, resurrection, and salvation are plain nonsense

The Christian of mercy is a dangerous, un-German idea

Christian love is a silly concept because love paralyses men

The Christian idea of equality protects the racially inferior, the ill, the weak, and the crippled

No, Hitler was NOT a Christian, but he wasn’t an atheist either. He was Roman Catholic. He was born to a Roman Catholic family, he was baptized, never rejected Jesus Christ, referance God in his book Mein Kampf, and all his soldiers had to wear a belt buckle that said “God is with us” in Geramn. It doesn’t matter that he did terrible things, that doesn’t make him any less of a Roman Catholic.

How so? Both Protestants and Catholics believe that Jesus was the Messiah/died to save our sins. As far as I and the rest of the world are concerned, Catholics and Protestants both fall into the label of "Christianity", just as Shia and Sunni both fall under Islam.

Well I knew that part already. If Jesus was the Messiah/died to absolve our sins as a basic principle of the Mormon faith, then I do believe that it qualifies as a Christian denomination. Of course, there might be some other defining reasons why Mormonism is distinct from Christianity, but I do not know them. The only thing that I can be sure of is that in the Muslim faith Jesus was not the Messiah and does not fit into the category of Christianity.